it seems the version of smtube currently in Debian does *not* rely on tonvid.com. A likely related issue to that is https://bugs.debian.org/797500

possible alternatives to smtube are minitube and (for console only, and therefore quite likely limited to audio) mps-youtube

smtube is an interactive Youtube browser - that is different from smplayer/mpv/youtube-dl which only supports feeding an explicit already known Youtube URL.

for the record: mpv uses youtube-dl for accessing Youtube and other online streaming services,

Fixed libsdl1.2 has entered Debian testing, so assume that means it is fixed in PureOS as well.

I disagree there is any issue here at all, and recommend to *not* apply the Parabola patch, as it seems to be a result of simple search'n'replace for _potentially_ bad strings - without then checking sanity of the resulting changes.

The diff I had already done, but your description on *why* you changed as you did is quite helpful.

I worry about bitrot for PureOS too.

turns out the package hydrogen-drumkits contain roughly the free parts of what is offered online, so setting up a curated live list is really no gain.

The list curated by Parabola seems to permit non-commercial CC licenses and does therefore not comply with Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Patch applied to Debian package, queued for release in 5 days (unless Debian maintainer intervenes).